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2018
Western novel: Stranded : a story of frontier survival by Matthew P. Mayo
Poetry: Wooden Lions by Karla Morton
Art/Photography: Once upon a time . . . The Western : a new frontier in art and
film, edited by Thomas Brent Smith and Mary-Dailey Desmarais
Nonfiction: Lakota performers in Europe : their culture and the artifacts they
left behind by Steve Friesen
Juvenile: Lotta Crabtree : gold rush fairy star by Lois V. Harris

2008
Western novel:
Harpsong by Rilla Askew
Poetry: Ludlow
: a verse-novel by David Mason
Photography: Eye of the West by Nancy Wood
Nonfiction: For the love of a horse by Max Evans
Juvenile: Journey to San Jacinto by Melodie A. Cuate
Art books: Charles M. Russell : a catalogue raisonné, edited by B. Byron Price

2006
Western novel: Buffalo Calf Road Woman : the story of a warrior of the Little
Bighorn by Rosemary Agonito and Joseph Agonito
Poetry: Refuge of whirling light by Mary Beath
Photography: Revealing character : Texas tintypes by Robb Kendrick
Nonfiction: Charlie Siringo's West : an interpretive biography by Howard Lamar
Juvenile: Westward Ho!
: eleven explorers of the American West by Charlotte Foltz
Jones
Art books: Thomas Moran's West : chromolithography, high art, and popular taste
by
Joni L. Kinsey

2005
Western novel: And not to yield by Randy Lee Eickhoff
Poetry: Cloud seeding by Stacy Gillett Coyle
Photography: Four Corners by Debra Bloomfield
Nonfiction:
The Oregon Trail : an American saga by David Dary
Juvenile: The good rainbow road = Rawa 'kashtyaa'tsi hiyaani : a Native American
tale in Keres and English, followed by a translation into Spanish by Simon J. Ortiz
Art books: Joe Beeler : life of a cowboy artist by Don Hedgpeth

1996
Western novel: A sweetness to the soul by Jane Kirkpatrick
Poetry: Between earth and sky : poets of the cowboy West, edited by Anne Heath Widmark
Nonfiction: The way to the West : essays on the Central Plains by Elliott West
Juvenile: The night the grandfathers danced by Linda Theresa Raczek, illustrated
by Katalin Olah Ehling
Art books: Independent spirits : women painters of the American West, 1890-1945,
edited by Patricia Trenton

1993
Western novel:
All the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy
Poetry: All that matters : the Texas plains in photographs and poems,
photographs of the Southwest Collection selected by Janet M. Neugebauer ; new
and selected poems by Walter McDonald
Nonfiction:
The Spanish frontier in North America by David J. Weber
Juvenile: An
Indian winter by Russell Freedman
Art books: The art of Howard Terpning by Elmer Kelton

1992
Western novel:
Set for life : a novel by Judith Freeman
Poetry: The digs in Escondido Canyon by Walter McDonald
Nonfiction: "It's your misfortune and none of my own" : a new history of the
American West by Richard White
Juvenile: Monster slayer : a Navajo folktale by Vee Brown, illustrated by Baje
Whitehorne
Art books:
Albert Bierstadt : art & enterprise by Nancy K. Anderson and Linda
S. Ferber

1990
Western novel: Broken Eagle by Chad Oliver
Poetry: Rafting the Brazos by Walter McDonald
Nonfiction:
Growing up with the country : childhood on the far-western frontier by Elliot West
Juvenile: Letters to Oma : a young German girl's account of her first year in
Texas, 1847 by Marj Gurasich
Art books: Watt Matthews of Lambshead by Laura Wilson

1984
Western novel: The long riders' winter by Frank Calkins
Nonfiction: Atlas of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, edited by Gary E. Moulton
Juvenile:
Children of the Wild West by Russell Freedman
Art books: The beat of the drum and the whoop of the dance : a study of the life
and work of Joseph Henry Sharp by Forrest Fenn

1978
Western novel:
Buffalo woman by Dorothy M. Johnson
Nonfiction:
Geronimo : the man, his time, his place by Angie Debo; Tim McCoy
remembers the West : an autobiography by Time McCoy and Ronald McCoy
Art books: Ross Stefan : an impressionistic painter of the contemporary
Southwest, by John K. Goodman

1977
No awards

1976
Nonfiction: Fifty great Western illustrators : a bibliographic checklist by Jeff C. Dykes; Charles F.
Lummis : the man and his West by Turbesé Lummis Fiske and Keith Lummis; Butte's
memory book by Don James
Juvenile: Owl
in the cedar tree by N. Scott Momaday
Art books: Hans Kleiber : artist of the Bighorn Mountains by Emmie D. Mygatt and
Roberta Carkeek Cheney

1974
Western novel: The time it never rained, by Elmer Kelton
Nonfiction: Bell Ranch as I knew it by George F. Ellis;
Will Rogers,
his life and times by Richard M. Ketchum; Owyhee trails; the West's
forgotten corner by Mike Hanley and Ellis
Lucia; Colorado Summer/Fall/Winter/Spring by David Muench and N. Scott Momaday
Art books: The lure of the great West by Frank Getlein

1973
Western novel: Chiricahua by Will Henry
Poetry: The
Donner party by George Keithley
Nonfiction:
The time of the buffalo by Tom McHugh
Art books: Harold von Schmidt draws and paints the Old West by Walt Reed

1970
Western novel: The white man's road, by Benjamin Capps
Nonfiction: The great Platte River road: the covered wagon mainline via Fort
Kearny to Fort Laramie by Merrill J. Mattes
Juvenile: An awful name to live up to by Jessie Hosford
Art books: Olaf Wieghorst by William Reed

1967
Western novel: They came to a valley, by Bill Gulick
Nonfiction: Gold fever, being a true account, both horrifying and hilarious, of
the art of healing (so-called) during the California gold rush by George W. Groh
Juvenile:
Mustang; wild spirit of the West by Marguerite Henry